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after the surrender of Lee. Judge Joe Alexander, as a private, lost an arm in that battle.
The regiment, which was one of the largest in the army by the accession of Bronaugh's battalion, having on its roster about 1,500 men, was in the bloody battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864, where Texas and Arkansas soldiers exemplified a valor which was never surpassed.
It was at Deep Run, August 6, 1864; at Petersburg during the siege by Grant; at High Bridge and Farmville in 1865; was in the retreat with Lee, and surrendered at Appomattox, where it stacked only 300 guns out of the 1,500 it carried ten months before.
One of its noted achievements was the repulse of a Maine regiment at Spottsylvania, after the latter had repulsed the Fourth and Fifth Texas, which were smaller regiments.
Colonel Manning, after being discharged from prison, settled in Mississippi, married, and upon the overthrow of the carpet-bag government in that State was elected representative in Congress.

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